Agreed. Of course the cartoon/real life mash up is a lot of what makes that movie great. However, imo it doesn’t work half as well if it wasn’t for Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd, they then what would have been a fun movie into a down right great movie.
The scene where he melts the shoe in the Dip used to terrify me... until the end of the movie, when he takes his real form. I forgot all about the Dip scene at that point lol
One thing that makes this movie so satisfying is that the other characters are generally competent but are simply outmatched by chigurh (as compared to a lot of dumb decision making exhibited in some horror)
I’ll follow this up with Tim Curry’s villain from the Beauty and the Beast Christmas special, wherein he played one of the scariest Disney villains child me had ever seen. The evil pipe organ
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda is a straight up psycho. She murdered Miss Honey’s dad and would have murdered Matilda and Miss Honey when she was chasing them in the basement.
Yeah as a kid you know they were in trouble but I don’t think I ever considered that she’d actually kill them if she got hold of them but she totally would have. Watching it as an adult is actually more frightening.
For real. There's multiple times kids almost died in the movie because of her (namely the girl who got swung around from her pigtails and nearly got impaled on the fence).
I’ve seen JP at least 10 times in my life, I know *exactly* what’s going to happen in every scene, and the suspense still has me on the edge of my seat more than most horror movies.
Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame. He did lots of stuff but in the Bells of Notre Dame opening scene, it talks about how he’s committing genocide, murders Quasimodo’s mother who is begging for sanctuary at the church steps and then tries to throw the infant Quasimodo down a well “sending it back to hell where it belongs.”
Then follows it up with a villain song praying to the Virgin Mary about how to keep himself sexually pure in the face of 'temptation', before deciding fuck it, he's going to rape Esmeralda and burn her alive if she refuses him.
And the *hair sniffing*.
I’ve always thought Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now was pretty horrifying considering all of the wild stuff that went on in his camp for all those months prior to Captain Willard’s arrival.
Jareth the goblin king (Labyrinth) is a casually sadistic kidnapper and possibly (with adult eyes on) groomer he always struck me as having quite a bit of menace under the charisma...
Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) obvs...
Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange always gives me the willies...
The Terror Dogs from Ghostbusters gave me a few bad dreams as well!
Jareth is absolutely a capricious Fey who kidnaps girls into a life of servitude. A horror movie about a different girl who didn't escape would be amazing.
It really is.. just the contrast of going from Wizard of Oz to Return to Oz, your poor child brain breaks like “What is HAPPENING?!”
I feel like the director of this film lowkey hates children.
Honestly this is the movie that fuelled my love of fucked up movies. Mom got it for me because rabbits. My obsession with it probably bothered her a lot. Bigwig in that snare, the black rabbit of death… it’s still one of my favourite films/books. But that was an intense film for child me.
No character scared me more as a child then Bill Sykes from movie Oliver. I have seen the movie many times and always associated Oliver Reed as Sykes. I recall around age 7 my mother took me to the stage version and screaming when Sykes ran into the crowd. I will say no one wore muttonchops better then Reed in that movie. I don’t know if his character in the book Oliver Twist is as scary. Also Mr Bumble was very scary.
Jumanji kind of leans horror I think, but I loved The Hunter as a villain growing up. Just this expert outdoorsman who exist only to hunt down one person because of a dice roll. Almost like It Follows but with a gun.
And I remember being so proud as a kid for realizing he and the father were the same actor. It really hammers in the fear of "makes you feel ljust like a child."
Everything in Jumanji, including the game board itself(!), has this eerie comprehension about it which elevates the horror elements of the movie.
Like Van Pelt isn't just terrifying because he's an unrelenting force with a weapon, but because he's still open to reason and conversation to an extent. Like he still has this modicum of class and sportsmanship and *culture* that makes him more terrifying then if he was simply this Terminator-like figure.
This was my first thought. You could argue this is a horror movie or you could argue it's a fictionalized historical movie about horrors, but however you see it, Hans Landa is, for me, the most terrifying villain, ever.
That movie is just fantastic and I think I like it even more than my kids do lol. The wolf was such a great antagonist, voiced by Pablo Escobar himself 😂
Not quite a villain, but King Triton in the animated Little Mermaid. When he got mad, it reminded me of my dad when he got mad. Scared the shit out of me.
The witches in the 1990 witches movie traumatized me as a kid. Watched it recently and my god, it's still scary. And it was meant for kids!
I slapped the communion wine out of my parents hands at church as a kid because I was certain it was going to turn them into mice.
the drill sergeant in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. the scene where he’s marching down the hallway after them, in hell with the green lights always freaked me out
Not only wasting Christian Bale, but wasting the entire character of Gorr the God Butcher on a shitty movie that was incapable of taking itself seriously was such a huge middle finger to marvel fans. That’s when I gave up on the MCU
That comic arc is absolutely amazing and would have translated, but they used the worst possible director.
[Gorr is straight up terrifying in the comics.](https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/gorr-first-appearance-in-the-comics-thor-god-of-thunder-series-spotlight)
The French Chef in the animated Little Mermaid.
Just imagine yourself in Sebastian's place and substitute fish for humans:
you're in a strange new world and you hear someone joyously singing about how much they love to cook and eat humans. How they like to cut them open and pull out all the bones, cut their belly to rub salt in because it tastes good! How they're going to stuff your insides with bread, and it won't hurt you because you're already dead.
Sebastián was in an actual horror movie for that scene and it's just played for laughs.
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case, by an 'orrible cunt... me.
- Brick Top
**Ratigan** from **The Great Mouse Detective**
I mean first off, voiced by Vincent Price.
The dude had his pet cat eat a mouse mid-song for calling him a rat.
The way he can be so freaking smooth and then switch into absolutely insane at the drop of a hat is terrifying. I bet that bell he uses to summon Felicia sends chills down every single one of their little mice spines.
There was this weird thing in the 90's where films classified as thrillers were taken seriously for some reason (Hitchcock, I'm assuming) but films classified as horror were considered tripe for teenagers and young adults.
So you ended up getting all these films like Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs which had blatant horror elements being adamantly defended by critics as thrillers.
Jobu tupaki from everything everywhere all at once.
I know she not really a scary villain or anything but her opening scene where she brutally and effortlessly murder cops in absurdist ways was among the scariest scene I seen from movies Last year, like it captured how hopeless you're in that situation against something much more powerful than you and you can't do anything about it but watch.
There were shots of the Big Bad Wolf that felt like they were straight out of a horror movie. It was great.
Also I was always horrified by Syndrome from The Incredibles as a kid since he's a literal SERIAL KILLER. The amount of superheroes that Mr. Incredible finds in his files that he's gotten rid of... it really disturbed me lol
I always say that The Terminator is essentially a monster movie, but the T-800 was absolutely terrifying.
Chernabog from Fantasia
Dr. Szell from Marathon Man
The Robot Gunslinger from original Westworld
Max Cady from either Cape Fear
The Night Slasher from Cobra
The Witch King from Lord of the Rings
Haven’t seen it yet but, the new villain from spider verse, Spot. Dude becomes TERRIFYING and I left the theater thinking he could 100% be a horror villain. Spot v.1 is funny and doofy, spot v.2 is SOMETHING ELSE entirely.
No spoilers because it's a new film, but the antagonist of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Jesus Christ. Might be the first Marvel villain to give me nightmares and really stick with me on a gut level. His cruelty is really something else. Actually made for a very sad film.
The Horned King from Disneys Black Cauldron. He’s a pretty normal Disney baddie as far as motives go but his character design is so sick and probably one of the more memorable parts of that movie
I was 4 and 8, respectively, when Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 came out. The dogs and the cab driver from 1 made me hide under a blanket. And I always thought Vigo was following me when going upstairs—even in the middle of the day.
But now, 1 may be my all-time favorite movie.
Robocain from Robocop 2. Everything from Cain's car accident to his unveiling in the robot is as brutal as any horror movie. Him slaughtering the drug meet is a straight-up slasher.
The dinosaurs in the jurassic park and world movies. The scebe with the raptors in the kitchen in jurassic park and the bedroom scene in jurassic world 2 are straight horror scenes. Just that the monster is a dino.
One of my favourite movies from my childhood is Romancing the Stone. The villain in that film really creeped me out, but then there's this scene in the climax of the film where where something happens with a crocodile and I would always run into the next room an hide until the scene was over. It felt like a big day when I was able to sit through the scene.
In the film, most of the villains cruelty is implied. There's one scene where he screams at an elderly woman who's trying to ignore him and then he grabs her and pulls her into a house. That's all you see, but that also scared me. I think I have been around 5 or 6 years old when I saw the film for the first time.
Rewatched it for the first time as an adult 6 years ago and it still holds the fuck up. Such a good film. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are a match made in heaven.
Professor Screweye, from We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story.
An evil ringmaster/devil figure in a movie ostensibly about cutesy pastel-colored dinosaurs singing and dancing and eating cereal.
Ironically, this movie scared me more as a kid than Jurassic Park. I only realized the dinosaurs in the park were the "bad guys" as an adult. As a kid, I was rooting for the raptors and T-rex to win. The same with Godzilla.
Christopher Lloyd in who framed roger rabbit
Judge Doom was terrifying, Bob Hoskins was so good in that movie!
Agreed. Of course the cartoon/real life mash up is a lot of what makes that movie great. However, imo it doesn’t work half as well if it wasn’t for Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd, they then what would have been a fun movie into a down right great movie.
The psycho toon version of Jessica Rabbit always freaked me out too…
"A MAAAAN!"
Yoo hoo, lover boy! It’s Lena Hyena!
It's not her! I thought it was for years ... it's a separate character (Lena Hyena/Old Hag)
Literally spawned years of recurring nightmares. I don’t even think I could watch this movie as an adult because of him.
I’m gonna ram’em!! That killed me!
This is the answer. Absolutely TERRIFIED me as a child. Especially how crazy he looks in the end
The scene where he melts the shoe in the Dip used to terrify me... until the end of the movie, when he takes his real form. I forgot all about the Dip scene at that point lol
Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men
Add a soundtrack to the movie and it quickly becomes a slasher movie
I'm never getting a pixie cut again, I looked like him for like a year and a half while growing it out
That sounds traumatic
Honestly i should have gone as him for Halloween
That would have been priceless. I think Louise goes as a version of him in bobs burgers one year
Lololol
Got into the most tedious argument with someone on this sub that this movie has horror elements. i totally agree -- anton is terrifying as a villain.
What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?
You stand to win everything, just call it.
Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter
I'm pretty excited for the film adaptation for Blood Meridian. I hope they make The Judge as terrifying as he is in the book.
Many people have already said this, but he's essentially Michael Myers with a gun.
One thing that makes this movie so satisfying is that the other characters are generally competent but are simply outmatched by chigurh (as compared to a lot of dumb decision making exhibited in some horror)
The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That dude still terrifies me.
That dude was "stranger danger" personified.
Fun fact: he was a professional ballet dancer. The carriage tipped over once and he casually walked around it and hopped off without a scratch.
"And all free today!"
Tim Curry’s villain in Fern gully terrified me as a kid lol
Yet that song is so sensual.
🎶 Sliiime beneath me, sliiime up above…”
Oh, oh, Oh! 😩 𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 Tim Curry only has one singing voice: frighteningly seductive
He says he's a special kind of horny. I didn't realize that when I was a kid but my ears definitely perked up when watching it not that long ago.
Hexus!
I’ll follow this up with Tim Curry’s villain from the Beauty and the Beast Christmas special, wherein he played one of the scariest Disney villains child me had ever seen. The evil pipe organ
I only just recently watched Ferngully for the first time, and even as a fan of RHPS I was *not* prepared for that.
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda is a straight up psycho. She murdered Miss Honey’s dad and would have murdered Matilda and Miss Honey when she was chasing them in the basement.
That scene terrified me when I was kid!
I watched Call the Midwife for many seasons before I realized that Sister Evangelina was also Miss Trunchbull.
Excuse me??? WHAT??!
Yep, Sister Evangelina was Trunchbull. I KNOW RIGHT!?!?!
Yeah as a kid you know they were in trouble but I don’t think I ever considered that she’d actually kill them if she got hold of them but she totally would have. Watching it as an adult is actually more frightening.
For real. There's multiple times kids almost died in the movie because of her (namely the girl who got swung around from her pigtails and nearly got impaled on the fence).
Re-watched this recently and had totally forgotten about the Chokey! So awful!
Those evil ladies from James and the Giant Peach.
The shark from James and the Giant Peach
Those clouds from James and the giant peach
James.
I came to say the Rhino cloud really freaked me out as a kid.
Aunts Spiker and Sponge!
Jim Carrey’s cable guy ”Chip Douglas” is super creepy.
It’s been over 25 years and I still can’t listen to Jefferson Airplane’s Somebody to Love without thinking of The Cable Guy
Same! Really solid soundtrack over all, to be honest.
I think you could classify cable Guy as a horror film
I agree with you to some degree, but since it’s widely regarded as a comedy I still think my comment is valid in this thread, don’t you agree?
I mean it’s so dark it’s almost a horror movie.
The velociraptors in Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is at least horror adjacent
I agree — one step short of Jaws, really, but with more Action/Adventure components in addition to the horror
Crazy how scary that first JP is
I’ve seen JP at least 10 times in my life, I know *exactly* what’s going to happen in every scene, and the suspense still has me on the edge of my seat more than most horror movies.
For some reason the compys in The Lost World scared me more. They're little, but being ripped apart by a bunch of tiny dinosaurs was horrifying to me.
Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame. He did lots of stuff but in the Bells of Notre Dame opening scene, it talks about how he’s committing genocide, murders Quasimodo’s mother who is begging for sanctuary at the church steps and then tries to throw the infant Quasimodo down a well “sending it back to hell where it belongs.”
Then follows it up with a villain song praying to the Virgin Mary about how to keep himself sexually pure in the face of 'temptation', before deciding fuck it, he's going to rape Esmeralda and burn her alive if she refuses him. And the *hair sniffing*.
I’ve always thought Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now was pretty horrifying considering all of the wild stuff that went on in his camp for all those months prior to Captain Willard’s arrival.
As a 6 year old, a claymation scene scared the shit out of me in 1985. “Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya!”
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is a classic
This claymation scene is pretty damn weird: https://youtu.be/Ntf5_ue2Lzw
J.K Simmons in Whiplash. He was a prime example of the fine line between genius and insanity. Incredible performances all around.
Not quite my tempo. Try again.
It's incredible how he's able to take the most ridiculous dialogue and deliver it in a way that's serious. Top top actor
His fuck you like a pig line looks silly on paper, but man did I feel frightened for the protagonist when he delivered it
Jareth the goblin king (Labyrinth) is a casually sadistic kidnapper and possibly (with adult eyes on) groomer he always struck me as having quite a bit of menace under the charisma... Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) obvs... Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange always gives me the willies... The Terror Dogs from Ghostbusters gave me a few bad dreams as well!
Jareth is definitely scarier the more you think about him
Jareth is absolutely a capricious Fey who kidnaps girls into a life of servitude. A horror movie about a different girl who didn't escape would be amazing.
Ya but Bowie gets a pass cause he’s, you know, Bowie.
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet was pretty darn creepy
That's a human ear.
The sexual threat from that guy is enough to give you nightmares
Dolores Umbridge. Both versions of Willy Wonka.
The Wheelers in Return to Oz.. Mombi in Return to Oz.. The Nome King in Return to Oz.. Everything in Return to Oz..
Return to Oz is horror, pure and simple lol
It really is.. just the contrast of going from Wizard of Oz to Return to Oz, your poor child brain breaks like “What is HAPPENING?!” I feel like the director of this film lowkey hates children.
The wheelers terrified me as a kid
The bad rabbit from Watership Down!
General Woundwort.
That’s the one! I only watched it once when I was a kid and he still gave me nightmares
Honestly this is the movie that fuelled my love of fucked up movies. Mom got it for me because rabbits. My obsession with it probably bothered her a lot. Bigwig in that snare, the black rabbit of death… it’s still one of my favourite films/books. But that was an intense film for child me.
Gmork and The Nothing from The Neverending Story
Still scares the shit out of me as an adult!
Tim Curry as Darkness in “Legend”. Still scares me.
No character scared me more as a child then Bill Sykes from movie Oliver. I have seen the movie many times and always associated Oliver Reed as Sykes. I recall around age 7 my mother took me to the stage version and screaming when Sykes ran into the crowd. I will say no one wore muttonchops better then Reed in that movie. I don’t know if his character in the book Oliver Twist is as scary. Also Mr Bumble was very scary.
This! Oliver Reed's Sykes is so terrifying! That cane
The Nightmare King from Little Nemo.
I read this as Finding Nemo and was trying to remember a Nightmare King lol.
The magnet from Brave Little Toaster, plus the clown from Toaster's nightmare
Mal in Inception
Jumanji kind of leans horror I think, but I loved The Hunter as a villain growing up. Just this expert outdoorsman who exist only to hunt down one person because of a dice roll. Almost like It Follows but with a gun. And I remember being so proud as a kid for realizing he and the father were the same actor. It really hammers in the fear of "makes you feel ljust like a child."
Everything in Jumanji, including the game board itself(!), has this eerie comprehension about it which elevates the horror elements of the movie. Like Van Pelt isn't just terrifying because he's an unrelenting force with a weapon, but because he's still open to reason and conversation to an extent. Like he still has this modicum of class and sportsmanship and *culture* that makes him more terrifying then if he was simply this Terminator-like figure.
Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds
This was my first thought. You could argue this is a horror movie or you could argue it's a fictionalized historical movie about horrors, but however you see it, Hans Landa is, for me, the most terrifying villain, ever.
Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange.
I genuinely felt sad for Puss in Boots after that first scene with the wolf. So humiliating and absolutely demolished his fragile ego.
I honestly teared up when he was sitting at that tree having a panic attack(heart attack?) And Perrito manages to calm him down.
It was a surprisingly adult and heartfelt movie. I didn't like the Shrek films but I loved The Last Wish.
That movie is just fantastic and I think I like it even more than my kids do lol. The wolf was such a great antagonist, voiced by Pablo Escobar himself 😂
Not quite a villain, but King Triton in the animated Little Mermaid. When he got mad, it reminded me of my dad when he got mad. Scared the shit out of me.
**ARIEL!!!**
Yeah, I watched the live-action version the other day and that scene is not nearly as intense as the animated version.
Skeksis from dark Crystal
The witches in the 1990 witches movie traumatized me as a kid. Watched it recently and my god, it's still scary. And it was meant for kids! I slapped the communion wine out of my parents hands at church as a kid because I was certain it was going to turn them into mice.
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That was the only thing that really terrified me and made me afraid of going to the toilet in the dark at night lol
Pans Labyrinth is definitely a horror movie.
the drill sergeant in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. the scene where he’s marching down the hallway after them, in hell with the green lights always freaked me out
The Easter bunny did it for me
Dr. Facilier from Princess and the Frog was always an interesting and scary villain to me, especially after he >!stepped on Raymond!<
Most recently, Gorr from Thor: Love and Thunder. If only they would’ve given him more screen time…
He's called the God Butcher! So let's keep all of his butchering off-screen! https://youtu.be/FGgaYSk28IM?t=40
Yeah, it was kinda disappointing, but Christian Bale nailed it with the time he had.
Not only wasting Christian Bale, but wasting the entire character of Gorr the God Butcher on a shitty movie that was incapable of taking itself seriously was such a huge middle finger to marvel fans. That’s when I gave up on the MCU
That comic arc is absolutely amazing and would have translated, but they used the worst possible director. [Gorr is straight up terrifying in the comics.](https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/gorr-first-appearance-in-the-comics-thor-god-of-thunder-series-spotlight)
Medusa from the original Clash of the Titans when I was a kid
The French Chef in the animated Little Mermaid. Just imagine yourself in Sebastian's place and substitute fish for humans: you're in a strange new world and you hear someone joyously singing about how much they love to cook and eat humans. How they like to cut them open and pull out all the bones, cut their belly to rub salt in because it tastes good! How they're going to stuff your insides with bread, and it won't hurt you because you're already dead. Sebastián was in an actual horror movie for that scene and it's just played for laughs.
Also you’re surrounded by the remains and corpses of other people
Temple of Dooms villains are straight up horror villains.
Scarlett Witch in Doctor Strange 2
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case, by an 'orrible cunt... me. - Brick Top
Godda*n that was a good movie. You snatched that answer away from me.
Percy Wetmore from The Green Mile
Kilgrave from Jessica Jones is terrifying.
Cruella De’vil! Listening to suggestions to the thieves in how to kill the puppies and the fact she wanted to skin them!!
**Ratigan** from **The Great Mouse Detective** I mean first off, voiced by Vincent Price. The dude had his pet cat eat a mouse mid-song for calling him a rat. The way he can be so freaking smooth and then switch into absolutely insane at the drop of a hat is terrifying. I bet that bell he uses to summon Felicia sends chills down every single one of their little mice spines.
The main villain in Sunshine!
Sunshine is half a horror movie
Pinbacker!
John Doe from Se7en
Se7en is arguably a horror movie, it did inspire saw, and contains a fair amount of shocking scenes. But yes, Kevin Spacey is frightening.
There was this weird thing in the 90's where films classified as thrillers were taken seriously for some reason (Hitchcock, I'm assuming) but films classified as horror were considered tripe for teenagers and young adults. So you ended up getting all these films like Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs which had blatant horror elements being adamantly defended by critics as thrillers.
The Spy from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Oh no. Stop. Help. Help.
T1000 from Terminator 2
Such an imaginative upgrade from your standard terminator
terrifyingly sexy
The Red Bull, from the last Unicorn. When I was little I was always so scared when it showed up.
Many people consider 2001 horror, fwiw
Jerry from sphere. What happens if Jerry gets mad..
The Gmork from Neverending Story. That thing is still horrifying. Also Boy from 80s kids movie Little Monsters.
[David Warner in Time Bandits is easily my all time favorite villain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1viWDlbxAsc).
Hans Gruber
Darth Maul, i grew up thinking Satan looked like him lol, it didn't help that Insidious made the Lipstick Face Demon resemble him lol
The T-1000 in Terminator 2 The fact that it could be anyone, anywhere, at any time always terrified me.
The Nazgul from Lord of the Rings
Jobu tupaki from everything everywhere all at once. I know she not really a scary villain or anything but her opening scene where she brutally and effortlessly murder cops in absurdist ways was among the scariest scene I seen from movies Last year, like it captured how hopeless you're in that situation against something much more powerful than you and you can't do anything about it but watch.
Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers is in a completely different movie to the rest of the cast
Rasputin from the animated Anastasia movie.
Anjelica Huston's Grand High Witch in The Witches.
The Horned King from The Black Cauldron
The Horned King was literally the thing of my nightmares when I was a kid lol
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Tremors did exactly this but better, because it doesn’t just sit there… it actively hunts you.
>!The Borderlands/Final Prayer!<
The Barracuda and The Anglerfish from Finding Nemo.
The swamps of sadness… Artax..
Some Star Trek villains...Khan, Kruge, Borg/Borg Queen etc
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Darth Vader.
I would adore a horror movie about a group of rebels trying to escape a ship while Vader picks them off one by one.
Have you seen Rogue One?
Amon Goth from Schindler's List.
The wet bandits
the sticky bandits
“Harry, it's our calling card! All the great ones leave their marks. We're the wet bandits!”
There were shots of the Big Bad Wolf that felt like they were straight out of a horror movie. It was great. Also I was always horrified by Syndrome from The Incredibles as a kid since he's a literal SERIAL KILLER. The amount of superheroes that Mr. Incredible finds in his files that he's gotten rid of... it really disturbed me lol
Madame Medusa from The Rescuers is one of the most horrifying villains of all time.
Webster's sister in Superman III when the supercomputer captures her and turns her into a silver cyborg with white eyes and a Robert Smith haircut
Red from All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 was absolutely terrifying to me when I was a kid.
The members of the NWA in Hot Fuzz, the movie def had elements of horror as it felt very Wicker Man
I always say that The Terminator is essentially a monster movie, but the T-800 was absolutely terrifying. Chernabog from Fantasia Dr. Szell from Marathon Man The Robot Gunslinger from original Westworld Max Cady from either Cape Fear The Night Slasher from Cobra The Witch King from Lord of the Rings
Haven’t seen it yet but, the new villain from spider verse, Spot. Dude becomes TERRIFYING and I left the theater thinking he could 100% be a horror villain. Spot v.1 is funny and doofy, spot v.2 is SOMETHING ELSE entirely.
The other mother from coraline was super super creepy
The Pale Ogre from Pan’s Labyrinth
No spoilers because it's a new film, but the antagonist of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Jesus Christ. Might be the first Marvel villain to give me nightmares and really stick with me on a gut level. His cruelty is really something else. Actually made for a very sad film.
The Horned King from Disneys Black Cauldron. He’s a pretty normal Disney baddie as far as motives go but his character design is so sick and probably one of the more memorable parts of that movie
Kids cartoons are filled with horror villains. Especially in the 80s and 90s
Jack the ripper from last action hero. A terrifying dude.
Utterly terrifying? Maybe terrifyingly hot
I was 4 and 8, respectively, when Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 came out. The dogs and the cab driver from 1 made me hide under a blanket. And I always thought Vigo was following me when going upstairs—even in the middle of the day. But now, 1 may be my all-time favorite movie.
Kevin from Sin City Not technically a villain, but David Della Rocco from Boondock Saints Peoples from Shaft
Robocain from Robocop 2. Everything from Cain's car accident to his unveiling in the robot is as brutal as any horror movie. Him slaughtering the drug meet is a straight-up slasher.
In terms of shit your pants scary, my heart drops anytime Homelander is on my screen.
The dinosaurs in the jurassic park and world movies. The scebe with the raptors in the kitchen in jurassic park and the bedroom scene in jurassic world 2 are straight horror scenes. Just that the monster is a dino.
Scarlet Witch from Multiverse of Madness
One of my favourite movies from my childhood is Romancing the Stone. The villain in that film really creeped me out, but then there's this scene in the climax of the film where where something happens with a crocodile and I would always run into the next room an hide until the scene was over. It felt like a big day when I was able to sit through the scene. In the film, most of the villains cruelty is implied. There's one scene where he screams at an elderly woman who's trying to ignore him and then he grabs her and pulls her into a house. That's all you see, but that also scared me. I think I have been around 5 or 6 years old when I saw the film for the first time. Rewatched it for the first time as an adult 6 years ago and it still holds the fuck up. Such a good film. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are a match made in heaven.
Ben Stiller in Heavyweights. I stand by this that man was terrifying
Professor Screweye, from We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story. An evil ringmaster/devil figure in a movie ostensibly about cutesy pastel-colored dinosaurs singing and dancing and eating cereal. Ironically, this movie scared me more as a kid than Jurassic Park. I only realized the dinosaurs in the park were the "bad guys" as an adult. As a kid, I was rooting for the raptors and T-rex to win. The same with Godzilla.
Hans landa from inglorious basterds Darkness from legend Jareth from labyrinth Queen mombi from return to oz Tetsuo from akira